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High-Tech Competition Puzzles : How Globalization Affects Firm Behavior and Market Structure in the Electronics Industry
Ernst, Dieter - 1999
This paper addresses two puzzles related to industrial dynamics and competition. The first of these puzzles is that a high degree of globalization may well go hand in hand with increasing concentration. I show that one of the most globalized sectors of the electronics industry, hard disk drives...
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Prices and mergers in a general model of multi-sided markets
Bajo-Buenestado, Raúl; Kinateder, Markus - 2023
We present a general and tractable oligopoly model of multi-sided platforms with endogenous side and platform choices of heterogeneous end-users, considering any mix of single-homing and multi-homing platforms and in which participating on one side could preclude doing so on others. We show the...
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Online Search Engine Competition with First-Mover Advantages, Potential Competition and a Competitive Fringe : Implications for Data Access Regulation and Antitrust
Casanova, Jordi - 2020
Are dominant online search engines monopolies enjoying low contest-ability, due to high barriers to entry, or innovative first-movers? This paper argues that dominant online search engines maintain their leadership through an “innovation feedback loop”: a process whereby increasing R&D...
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Repositioning and Cost-Cutting : The Impact of Competition on Platform Strategies
Seamans, Robert - 2017
Organizational structures are increasingly complex. In particular, more firms today operate as multi-sided platforms. In this paper, we study how platform firms use repositioning and cost-cutting in response to competition, elucidate external and internal factors that constrain or enable these...
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Product Reviews and Competition in Markets for Repeat Purchase Products
Li, Xinxin; Hitt, Lorin M.; Zhang, Z. John - 2012
This paper examines how information provided by online reviews influences firms’ pricing strategy for repeat purchase products. It is commonly understood that online reviews can reduce consumer uncertainty about product characteristics and, therefore, have the potential to increase product...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014212447
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Competition Against Peer-to-Peer Networks
Herings, P. Jean-Jacques; Peeters, Ronald; Yang, Michael - 2009
In this paper, we consider the competition of providers of information products against P2P networks that offer illegal versions of the information products. Depending on the generic cost factor of downloading — incorporating factors including, among other things, the degree of legal...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014215272
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Chapter 2. The Advertising-Financed Business Model in Two-Sided Media Markets
Anderson, Simon P.; Jullien, Bruno - 2015
This chapter focuses on the economic mechanisms at work in recent models of advertising finance in media markets developed around the concept of two-sided markets. The objective is to highlight new and original insights from this approach, and to clarify the conceptual aspects. The chapter first...
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Facilitating Competition in the Cloud
Gleeson, Niamh; Walden, Ian - 2022
In this paper, we analyse the potential application to the cloud computing services sector of EU competition rules … services is a key threshold issue, with complex product and geographic factors to be considered. Further, the interoperability … of technologies and services, and the ease with which users may move from one provider to another, may also be critical …
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Impact of User Skills and Network Effects on the Competition between Open Source and Proprietary Software
Lin, Lihui - 2014
Despite the availability of source code, deploying open source software (OSS) in an enterprise environment requires expertise. Recent surveys and case studies show that the skills of IT staff in an organization are one of the key factors in OSS adoption decisions. Another important factor...
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Competition Among Proprietary and Open-Source Software Firms : The Role of Licensing on Strategic Contribution
August, Terrence - 2020
In enterprise software markets, firms are increasingly using services-based business models built on open … contribute to OSS and compete in the services market, the nature of competition between OSS constituents and proprietary software …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012837117